10 Things You Didn't Know About California's Budget

Standard of living? Yeah Right.

Standard of living is decreasing for both whites and blacks in California? That is the funniest jokes I have ever heard. "The standard of living is deteriorating because of the blacks" something that may have been said 30+ years ago is now being reiterated with "The standard of living is deteriorating because of the Mexicans." Lets rewind 100+ years ago and you may never of hear that "The standard of living is deteriorating because the Chinese were taking all our jobs." Sound familiar?

Let me share a piece of Californian history most everybody outside CA barely know. Ever heard of the other Ellis Island? I sure hope you do because it is only the tip of the iceberg of California. While it may have been easier for the Europeans in the east to get through to America, the same could not be said about Angel Island. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and to the Japanese Internment Camps, many were detained there unable to go anywhere from months to a year unknowing if they are allowed to return to their country or be allowed back into America. Many of them that stayed worked liked such injustices weren't there. What is still left in the fire of 2008, still contains poems of those who were detained there and unable to move. Kids making friends with others to get by until they were allowed to set foot in California.

The transcontinental railroad so hailed back then would not have been accomplished if the Chinese were never there to begin with. They did what work many did not want to do. They built railroads in the freezing cold, they built levees around Sacramento and California. They did not have much rights because all that ever happened were that rights were taken away from them because the whites believe they were privileged for their gold, for their work, for their "hierarchy."

Many Mexican immigrants of today are doing the lower end jobs, something most American workers do not want to do. Yet, they complain that the Mexicans are stealing their jobs. See the resemblance yet? Want to work lower than minimum wage for a whole day without compensation but death or deportation?

While I can speculate about gangs and the drug cartel, there are immigrants that really want to live here for a better life and would accomplish what they could to make America a better place. I know the blacks did, I know the Chinese did (and often unheard for the accomplishments.) Not all immigrants are part of some gang, it is what the people do that creates them. Sacramento used to have a Chinatown for the little protection they could have. Today, the population of Sacramento has dispersed through Sacramento because people feel that there is less than a need for it. 1 in 10 households are of interracial relationships, this is ahead of all cities in America by population.

Is my city crime free? I would say absolutely not, but there are many things in this city you could hope to find in another city but never am able to.

Hey @ Kendall

From the MichalSavage.com website:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-illegal10-2009jul10,0,3398621.story

California Hispaic groups are saying exactly what I and others have been saying all along.

CA is a wasteland of poverty and dispair living in the shadow of La La Land (Hollywood).

Most cities in CA are crime ridden and very few Police Dept. will even aggressively go after criminals because they are affraid of racial profiling accusations. I racial profile every day. I see a 'gansta' walking toward me, I cross the street ... and I'm black! Go figure?!

Arizona has problems, but thank God we have Sherrif Joe. The bad people here hate him, because he locks up their sons and daughters when they commit crimes. I have seen tent city (from the outside) and its not a CA jail with T.V., A/C, and couches.

I don't think I will ever again live in CA. The taxes there are too high, hispanic gangs like MS13 have declared a war of genocide on blacks (something the liberal news media REFUSES to report, or Jesse HiJackSon refuses to admit to and fight because his non-profit group, Rainbow Push, receives donations from leftist hispanic groups), and the standard of living is decreasing for whites and blacks on a DAILY basis in California.

Hey looks like the San Andeas fault is about to break for the BIG ONE!!! Good luck riding those S and P Earth Quake Waves :)

Jonathan

Plan to Securely Pay the Cost of California Government using Nuclear Waste

Proposal to securely and sustainably fund the cost of State government and

1)Eliminate all State income and sales taxes in California.

2)Pay each legal California adult resident not in jail a variable yearly dividend of approximately $20,000 from a California Permanent Fund.

3) Provide a $1000 California Permanent Fund Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa dividend payment to all children of all legal adult California residents whether their parent(s) are in jail or not.

Citizens of the State of Alaska pay no State personal income tax or sales tax. The full cost of Alaska State government is paid for from energy royalties. These State energy royalties also permit regular dividend payments (2008 Alaska Permanent Fund dividend was $3,269.00) to every legal adult Alaskan resident. I propose creating similar arrangements in the State of California, securely and honesty paying the full cost of State Government without massive borrowing or an inadequate collection of short term improvised financial gimmicks.

Each year America's current 104 LWR reactors produce 2000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The energy value left in 2000 tons of spent fuel rods after they are considered expended and are removed from operation in America's LWRs is approximately

7.0 x 10^12 KW hours of additional energy [1]

if all fissile and fertile uranium in the spent fuel is completely burned in an appropriately designed alternate technology molten salt reactor. The value of the electricity that would result from fully burning all of the 2000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is

$685 billion dollars a year

presuming a 2009 average cost of electricity of 9.79 cents per KW hour.

2000 tons of spent fuel are produced by US LWRs every year, year in and year out, and the potential exists to consistently produce a sizeable revenue stream that could help pay the cost of government from the combined sale of electricity and nuclear industry waste fund payments from nuclear waste generators. The magnitude of this combined revenue steam is on a par with the magnitude of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which Congress provided to kick start the US economy. The funds that would come from completely burning the energy left remaining in spent nuclear fuel would produce a tremendous lift to the California economy This 2000 tons of spent fuel is produced every year, year in and year out, and the potential exists to consistently produce sizeable revenue in sale of electricity and waste fund payments from nuclear waste generators for the State of California on a long term basis.

Excess funds generated by using spent nuclear fuel to generate electricity would produce

$685 billion (SNF electricity sales) – $105 billion (Ca. budget costs) = $580 billion (excess funds).

This Plan could pay the full cost of State government on a sustainable basis. The $580 billion in excess funds could permit a payment of ~$20,000 to all 26.1 million adult Californians and $1000 to all Children

@ Jonathan Dunbar

I see, so you left CA and moved to AZ to get away from illegal immigrants? That was very logical my friend. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why your house is so cheap? Besides the housing bubble, that relatively new house was built with cheap labor. And where do you think that cheap labor comes from? Yes, the Employee Verification laws were passed, but not before your home was built.

I am the opposite of you - native of AZ, lived there for 24 years and moved to CA. I love AZ, and the people in it (regardless of where they come from) but it sounds pretty ignorant to hold AZ up as a bright, shining beacon of immigrant-free glory. And you should probably also take a look at the recent drama with AZ's current budget, which is barely being passed by the skin of its teeth, and forcing the Legislature to cram what should be months of work into days. Considering you live in Surprise, I do not know if you have ever visited certain areas of Central Phoenix, but the area where I grew up does not look a whole lot different from some of the worse-off areas of Los Angeles.

You are right about one thing - AZ is a nice place, but the resident status of the people is not what's making the so-called difference. The CA government has been making some bad choices on how they are spending our money and it's gotten us into trouble. The arguments you make for CA going down the "toilet" and AZ not just don't make sense.

Interesting CNN and Fox have this story buried.

I am a former CA resident. Grew up in Carson CA, and lived int he state for 25+ years. LA area and SF area.

I did leave, the state is foolish. I relocated to Arizona. A 3100 SQ ft. house in a nice area 3 year old house, I am in Surprise Arizona, sells for $140k now.

I would rather be here as my limited dollars go much further than they would in CA. Gas here is ~ $2.39/gal. No heating costs has it is warm all year round.

What is wrong with CA? 5 of every 9 CA residents, support the other 4 of 9. Welfare and the costs of illegals is why CA is so screwed up. CA deseves what it has sown. For decades, CA offered sanctuary cities and didn't want to admit that with the honest [sic] illegal resident, you get black tar heroin pushers. You get cocain smugglers. You get rapist, and murderers. You get MS13 and Mexican mothers who want to have their 'anchor' babies so they can get free welfare benefits that they never spent one day paying for.

No CA, I don't feel one bit sorry for you ... all things come to an end and that applies to CA also. Good luck, and STAY in your screwed up state. Don't bring that crap to Arizona ... its too nice of a state to go down the toilet with your dumb dumb socialistic ways.

Jonathan Dunbar

American of African Decent. Age 42.

I don't vote for D or R because they are all theives and liars, I only depend on myself and my immediate family.

MD in California of CA is clueless like Palin

The problem is not with state employees' salaries.

California has the highest number of state workers, but only 2 states have a lower state work to resident ratio.

California pays for the welfare of other states since it gets back only 75 cents on the dollar when it comes to tax revenues collected. Alaska for example gets $1.83

All of the non-resident complainers have California envy. The weather, the places, the beaches, just everything is simply better.

Californians need to end this system of propositions, because that is what is killing it in times of bad economy. Everybody wants more prisons to put BAD people in it, but nobody wants to pay for building those prisons, or paying someone to take care of the prisoners.

Everybody wants expressways, but no one wants to pay for them.

Everybody wants better education, but no one wants to pay for them.

I suppose being uneducated and toothless in Texas or Oklahoma, but having a gunb to "shewt dem commies" is better!

Get the hell out of my state!

pissed Native of CA should leave

and go to South Carolina.

R U Kiddign of CA does not understand what Socialism means

He should leave and go to Alaska.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2009/06/26/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-californias-budget/comments/#3581994

Another xenophobe who confuses immigrants with illegal aliens.

And no, they do not cost $34 billion a year. They coat a lot, but neither Republicans nor Democrats want to solve the problem because one side gets cheap labor and the other cheap votes.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2009/06/26/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-californias-budget.html?msg=1#3589221

Yeah, sell 40% of state land to solve one year's problem!

Please stay out of California.